Mark Hohmeister: Drawing lines, stealing votes

6:05 PM,
Feb. 8, 2013

Mark Hohmeister

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Remember all the gnashing of teeth before the November election, as Floridians worried about voter IDs, purge lists and possible disenfranchisement?

Well, that might have been small potatoes compared with the real disenfranchisement engineered by our Legislature and other lawmakers throughout the country.

In this week's Sunday Review in the New York Times, Sam Wang, founder of the Princeton Election Consortium, wrote a piece titled "The Great Gerrymander of 2012." In it, he makes the case that possibly millions of voters have been in essence disenfranchised by those who draw the ...